Athletics began their competitions today with the men and women’s 1500m taking center stage. Janet Chepkoech got team Kenya off to an electric start by completely dominating heat one of the women’s 1500m and her teammate Nancy Cherop followed with a win in similar fashion in the second heat.
In the men’s Category the story was no different as Josephat Sang and Andrew Kiptoo easily cruised to the finish line to win their heats respectively to book slots in the finals.
Cyclists Daniel Kiptala and Billy Graham in their road race put in a spirited fight which saw them finish 14th and 15th in a photo finish and it was hard to tell who was in what position from 4-19.
In Tobago the girls rugby registered a second win when they ran rampage on hosts Trinidad and Tobago 48-0 . the second match of the day our young lionesses fell to Australia 45-0. Our girls are set to face Canada today in the last match of the round robin format fixture.
In Para athletics then T35 women’s 100m had Faith Kavithi finishing 4th in the semis to book a slot in the finals ,later on in the evening, she was however unable to finish her race after she tripped and fell.
In the T38 men’s 100m semis Randy Odhiambo managed to make it to the finals which he ran later and finished 7th out of 8. In Swimming Sara Mose got to swim a personal best in the women’s 50m backstroke and 50m free while Aker Mutinda swam a personal best in the men’s 50m fly as well as the 100m free
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